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“Sans honte et sans regret”: Les chemins de traverse entre le pénal et le psychiatrique dans les cas d'aliénation criminelle à Montréal, 1920--1950 (2015)

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Medicine and law Prisons Psychiatric hospitals 20th century, early Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

Dr Daniel Plouffe, the psychiatrist in charge of women's transfers from the Fullum Women Prison to Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital and of men's incarceration at Bordeaux Hospital for the Insane, was, more generally, the one who evaluated the criminally insane between 1920 and 1950. Using records of patients committed to Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Hospital, this article provides an analysis of criminal behaviour and, most importantly, of signs on which new experts could decide the mental state (mind) of a person during a crime. Assault, vagrancy, prostitution, arson, violence, and theft are some of the behaviours noted in the records that triggered the judicial process leading to the segregation of individuals and subsequently, to their receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. These cases serve to illustrate the slow but successful attempts of forensic psychiatrists who lobbied for the recognition of this field of expertise and who intended to treat rather than punish criminals who were recognized as mentally disturbe

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Authors & Contributors
Edwards, Ryan Christopher
Parsons, Anne E.
Boult, Margaret
Dahl, Hilde
Farquharson, Lauren
Hide, Louise
Journals
Social History of Medicine
History of Psychiatry
Northern History
Medical History
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
University of Toronto Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of California Press
Manchester University Press
Bloomsbury Academic
Cornell University
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Prisons
Medicine and law
Mental disorders and diseases
Institutionalization
Health care
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Canada
Great Britain
Scotland
Argentina
United States
Institutions
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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